I think y'all are overdesigning this. Thread creation will probably be
done once, at the start of a session. All you need is a simple primitive
to create one thread with maximum generality. Write a verb to do what
you need.
Henry Rich
On 4/29/2022 3:19 AM, Elijah Stone wrote:
I like the idea of making y a boxed vector. Perhaps a format like
(nthreads0;options0);(nthreads1;options1);<nthreads2;options2.
Optionally leave off any of the nthreads and instead double-box
options in order to create just one thread. Leave off the options to
use the default options for this batch of threads. And if you only
need one batch of threads, leave off the outermost layer of boxing
entirely.
I am much less sure of making x a vector. As T. is a trenchcoat
function, I don't think it makes much sense. (o. is an exception, but
that is arithmetic and rank 0, so it's a bit of a special case.) What
were you thinking vector x would mean?
We do not need a super low-level interface here, either.
IMO, needing to manually create threads at all is somewhat low level.
-E
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022, Raul Miller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 10:28 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]>
wrote:
I was enthusiastic about this proposal when I first saw it, but on
reflection, I have misgivings. The y argument to (0 T. y) is reserved
for thread parameters; with the proposal, how will thread parameters
be set?
y could be a vector, if you need that.
For that matter, x could be a vector.
For that matter, x and/or y could be a boxed vector. This is
initialization, so you're not going to be doing any of this in a tight
loop. We do not need a super low-level interface here, either.
For that matter, this could have been a mini-language (along the
lines of wd).
--
Raul
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